Retell Comprehension Foundation Unit

Help Foundation students retell familiar stories clearly and in order with a structured, classroom-ready English unit. The sequence explicitly teaches setting, characters, problem, key events, solution, beginning-middle-end structure and the time words first, next, then and finally.

The original Pip and the Windy Hat story anchors whole-class teaching and guided practice. Students build oral and visual comprehension through colourful displays, sequence cards, stick puppets, a scene mat and two reusable games before recording their thinking in six complementary worksheets. The separate Rainy-Day Rescue task checks whether students can transfer their retelling skills to a new story.

What's included

• 24-page printable Retell Comprehension unit plan PDF, including the Table of Contents
• 23 printable resource pages
• 15-slide editable teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz with 10 questions and separate answer slides
• Five Retell Clues classroom display
• Retell Time Words reference poster
• Pip and the Windy Hat sequence cards
• Pip and Kiri stick puppets
• Picnic Park scene mat
• Roll a Retell game
• Story Trail board game
• 6 student worksheets with 6 answer or suggested-answer pages
• 2-page Rainy-Day Rescue assessment with a model-answer page
• Retell Comprehension Rubric

Learning focus

• Identify a story's setting and characters
• Recognise the problem, important events and solution
• Sequence events from beginning to end
• Use first, next, then and finally
• Retell in the student's own words through speaking, acting, drawing or writing
• Change one story element while keeping the retell coherent

Classroom use

Suitable for whole-class explicit teaching, oral-language groups, literacy rotations, partner practice, independent work, formative assessment and unit review.

Formats

Printable PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx)

Page and slide counts

Unit plan: 24 PDF pages. Presentation: 15 slides. Quiz: 22 slides.

Answers

Seven answer or model-answer pages are included. Open-ended responses may vary.

Teacher benefits

• A coherent teaching-to-assessment sequence in one resource
• Visual and oral-language support for beginning readers and writers
• Reusable hands-on games and role-play materials
• Editable teaching and quiz decks
• Immediate red-answer versions for efficient marking and discussion

Digital product

Digital download only. No physical item is supplied.

Licence

For use by the purchasing teacher with their own classes. The files may not be resold, redistributed, shared publicly or uploaded to an unrestricted website.